I don't know. I must say I was a bit surprised. Mandrake 9 did a wonderful job of detecting everything. I don't understand quite why 9.1 is having so many problems for me, considering that my hardware configuration is exactly the same as it was for 9.
My WinTv card isn't a Go, it is slightly older model. I have Never had a problem with it before though, under any Linux distro (and that is going quite a ways back).
As for my Sound Blaster Live!, it seems very strange that that isn't working. It doesn't appear that Mandrake included any utilities for configuring ones sound card... Nothing a recompile won't fix though... Actually I re-compiled the other day, but havn't had a chance to try out my new kernel yet. Still, if Mandrake is aiming for "ease of use" I think it would be wise for them to include some sort of a sound config tool, even if they just threw Red Hat's "sndconfig" in there that would be enough. If there is a sound config tool in there and I'm missing it please let me know. :-)
- Brian H. -
From: Jesse Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CLUG TALK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Mandrake 9.1 Date: 30 Mar 2003 14:40:04 -0700
I'd have to say that I love Mandrake 9.1. I found 9.0 to be very buggy, but they seem to have worked most of the problems out in 9.1. My Hauppage WinTV Go card was recognized and configured by the installed. Unlike with previous versions of Mandrake I didn't have any problems getting the card to work. I was able to go straight into Zapping and setup the channels and watch. I haven't tested the cards capture capabilities yet, as I've never been able to get that to work properly in the past. It also had no problem configuring my soundblaster card and lilo. Maybe your just having some bad luck :-). I really like the fact that they finally have a working Gnome installation, and I love the fact that Mandrake Galaxy makes my QT and GTK apps look consistent. The only gripe that I have so far is that I cannot get the sub-menu to allow me to select copy, move, or link when dragging and dropping files in Nautilus or Konqueror. I also don't like the fact that KDE defaults to double click to open files and folders, but that's easy to change.
Jesse
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 00:47, b-r-i-a-n - wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone else has tried out Mandrake 9.1 yet? I would be
> interested to hear other peoples impressions of it.
>
> I installed it the other day. On the surface it looks very impressive, but
> I have come to find that alot of stuff doesn't work that should. Both my
> sound card (SBLive!) and TV card (Hauppauge WinTV) don't appear to work, and
> Lilo seemed to have some issues too (now using Grub instead). This has
> never been a problem before with previous releases of Mandrake. Oh well...
> at least supper mount is working properly... lol...
>
> Anyway, I'm just re-compiling my kernel right now. sigh... silly
> Mandrake...
>
> Laters,
>
> Brian H.
>
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